A Regional Poultry Processing Meeting/ Demonstration will take place on Friday, November 1st, beginning at 8:30 am, at the Franklin County Ag Center annex and covered shelter, 103 S. Bickett Blvd., in Louisburg. The morning program will be followed by a catered chicken lunch.
Topics include• Updates on the Avian Influenza in NC, and how it affects the backyard producer: Jonas Asbill, Regional Extension Poultry Agent
• What You Need to Know from your Poultry (including egg marketing) & Meat Inspector: Poultry Processing Rules and Regulations, Marvin Lackman, NCDA & CS, MPID, Compliance Officer North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Meat and Poultry Inspection Division• Hands-on Poultry Processing 101: What you need to Know, Christina Sigmon, NCSU, Prestage Poultry Science
• Hands-on Processing Demonstration - outside: Mark Paylor and Anthony Hooks, NCA&T University
Cost: $30 per person. Register Online via Eventbrite at the below link.
(Registration fee includes resources, refreshments, lunch and hands-on demonstration.)
Deadline to register, 8:00 a.m. October 31st.
go.ncsu.edu/regional-poultry-regs-hands-on-processing
